Oh no. Anyway …
His possessions included a $55 million house. Boo fucking hoo.
Within a year of resigning from the top job at Peloton, he had raised $25 million for his new venture, a direct-to-consumer rug company called Ernesta.
So he failed at one company massively and investors were dumb enough to throw $25 million at him for making fucking rugs?
You could say they got their rugs pulled!
Nobody taught him how to billionaire right.
Dude was never a billionaire to begin with. Peleton stock was vastly over valued by hype and was going to come crashing down sooner than later. Just another company that tried to sell itself as a tech company without making actual groundbreaking tech.
I could never figure out how they sold a bog standard exercise bike with a crap tablet attached to it, and people just the money at them.
Don’t forget the death trap treadmill that got recalled because it sucked pets and small children underneath https://news.sky.com/story/stop-using-peloton-treadmills-if-you-have-children-or-pets-us-officials-warn-12278860
Perk up bud. You can always sell your blood.
He’s fine. All he has to do is pull himself to by his bootstraps, cancel his Netflix account and he’ll be back a billionaire in a year.
He’s still buying avocado toast. He’ll never financially recover.
He just needs to stop buying that avocado toast and expensive coffee in the morning.
For how much he lost he must be buying avocado toasts with little diamonds in them, and then getting his teeth remade every day after they got destroyed by chewing the diamonds.
World’s smallest violin plays quietly
This is some asshat complaining that he isnt a billionaire anymore and how he is now humble and hungry to make it back there since his net worth is now only a lowly 225 million and he had yo sell hie 55 million dollar home. He is not pennyless selling his possessions he just had to downgrade his living style from wasteful worthless billionaire to the low level of a few hundred millionaire.
Don’t worry everyone he staryed a direct sales rug company he thinks should get himmback to 500 million. Fuck this article and this guy.
Hahahahahhahaha.
Yeeeeeessss.
a direct-to-consumer rug company called Ernesta
Ah… Another brilliant idea.
Subscription stationary bikes was his golden goose remember. It’s a pretty horrendous notion, but they had brilliant marketing and a pandemic to ride.
I still can’t believe people fell for that. The bike was like $2500+ and you had to pay for it monthly.
The real problem was that they achieved vendor lockin and thought that made them safe but couldn’t offer anything even slightly unique that wasn’t available free on other exercise bikes - or rather they could have but just didn’t.
They wanted to offer the absolute lowest quality experience for the highest price and hoped that name recognition and advertisement would carry them.
…so just like a lot of companies hahaha
(…) Foley was once worth $1.9 billion, according to Bloomberg, but left the company with a net worth of $225 million.
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The ex-Peloton chief was forced to downsize twice—including selling a $55 million East Hampton waterfront home and uprooting his family.
Though Foley has lost much of his fortune, the ordeal has not extinguished his ambition. Within a year of resigning from the top job at Peloton, he had raised $25 million for his new venture, a direct-to-consumer rug company called Ernesta.
You know, my heart is not exactly bleeding for the guy. Nobody should even have a $55 million residence in the first place, fucking hell. Also, being left with only $225 million is hardly losing all your money, is it?
“No member of my family through to my great grandchildren will need to work a day in their lives; I’m ruined.”
$225m only generates an extremely conservative $9m year in interest. I know I couldn’t live off such a pittance. Please have sympathy for this poor man.
Nobody should have 55m no matter what makes it worth that much
Man, I too could rough it with 225 million, maybe… someone should give that to me, to see if I can make ends meet! I’d like to try that experiment.
According to billionaires, he’ll easily return to his former glory by pulling himself up on those massive bootstraps we should all apparently be using.
Fun trivia… Pulling yourself up from your bootstraps is impossible and the phrase came from an 1800s physics textbook that asked why a person can’t pull themselves up that way.
It somehow got twisted to mean that it should be possible with hard work.
Fun trivia, sometimes turn of phrases can come about differently, especially when they mean different things. Unless you can tie it together with something better than “somehow got twisted” you really shouldn’t claim that’s the origin.
I can assure you that I have better things to do in life than sit at a computer making up origins of common phrases
And for the odd duck whom fortune smiles upon, they get to proudly say they pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps while glossing over the once in a century singleton event that carved their path for them to follow.
Yeah, the thing is - I just don’t get it. Like most people likely do, I have thought about what I’d do if I came into a large sum of money, maybe by selling a company, and honestly, the answer is, a relatively normal flat in the city I live in; some travel, but nothing ‘luxury’, just seeing places I find interesting; giving both to charities I find worthwhile, and my local community; and investing in a responsible way (fuck returns if you get them by investing in oil and weapons, one could argue that investor owned companies as such are a problem, but I’m probably not going to be able to solve that can of worms).
So the difference in my life would be having less financial stress, being able to give back more, and focusing more on family, friends, and hobbies, and I just couldn’t imagine blowing through money like that man has.
It may be partially because I saw my father find incredible success, only to spend a lot of it on pointless luxuries before dying in incredible debt, but it also just feels like common sense.
I always say this to that kind of thinking : you will never be in that situation because you lack the sociopathy to get there. You care about your family and your community and you don’t have the ability to step on people’s head without feeling bad.
That wealth is incomprehensible to 99.99% of the people, and we are just trying to get by comfortably, so we can’t imagine spending 55 millions on a home. That generational wealth right there for a damn home.
